Improved tool-holder



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`SELF-AND SELDEN,` A. BAILEY, o3 SAME PLACE.

11mm Patent No. 98,837, dazed Janna/ry 1s, 1870.

IMPROVED TOOL-HOLDER.

.l'he` Schedule referred to in thseY Letters Patent and making part of the same` To all 'whom it may oncem':

i Be itfknown that I, JOSEPH R. BAILEY, of Woonsocket, in the county of Providence, and iu the State .of'Rhode' Island, have invented n new and useful Improved Tool-Holderfzind Ido hereby declarethtt the i'ollowingis al full, clear, and eknctdescriptiou thereof, reference being had to the annexed'drztwiugs, making pax-tof this specification, in which- The nature of my invention consists in providinga' cheap'and eifective'derice for coniining tools used 'in turning or planing metals.

' To enable those skilled in the art to ineke :ind use my invention, 1 will proceed to 'describe its construetion and operation.

In the drawings-- Arepresents. a. bei" of iron, in the upper edge of' which a-dovetniled groove, is vformed,.extendiu1 ,z from one end to theother; The groove maybe a. little slanting, as shown. lin g. 2, and its base bevelled, to

coliform it to the form of the tool which `is yto be slid l into it.

B represents another bnr of iron, similar to A. This bar-B has :t groove formed in its under edge, tapering from bottom to top,v its shown inrfig. 2, und also somewhat slnnting.

C represent-s the tool, .which is slid into the groove in the bur A, :titer which the ber B is placed over its projecting part. The whole is then placed `in the tool# post, and the set-screw therein screwed down upon the bar B sufficiently tight to holdv the two-parts of the holder, as well its the tool itself, frmljf'in position.

Whztt'I claim as new, and desire to secure by` Letters Patent, is-

The tool-holder A B, constructed substantially as shown and described.

tThe above speoiieatiou signed by me, this day o 18 v JOSEPH R. BAILEY.

Witnesses: GEORGE A. WILBUR, WM. H. BAILEY. 

